FRASER TOWNSHIP, MI — Police are saying a 20-year-old man, high on a hallucinogens, broke into a Fraser Township farmhouse and assaulted an elderly woman, but wound up in the hospital himself after the woman's family came to her aid.

Around 7:54 p.m. on Thursday, May 2, Bay County Sheriff's deputies and Michigan State Police troopers responded to a break-in call in the 2845 E. Almeda Beach Road. They arrived to find 80-year-old resident Bernice M. Pickvet had been assaulted when a burglar entered the house, deputies report.

Pickvet was alone in the home, but several male relatives were working in elsewhere on the dairy farm, said Lt. James Chlebowski.

“The family of the elderly female arrived after he entered the house,” Chlebowski said, adding that the relatives had been alerted to a disturbance in the home. “They tried to hold him there and a fight started. He was struck a number of times by the family members.”

After police arrived, both the intruder and Pickvet were taken to McLaren Bay Region hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries, Chlebowski said. The suspect was later taken to the Bay County Jail.

The suspect assaulted Pickvet with his bare hands and no weapon was involved, Chlebowski said.

The suspect is from the Pinconning area and did not know Pickvet, Chlebowski said. Investigators believe the man was high on some hallucinogenic drug, but Chlebowski couldn't specify the particular substance.

Police reports have been sent to the Bay County Prosecutor's Office and the suspect could be arraigned as early as 1:30 p.m. Friday, Chlebowski said.